國際傳媒新聞:2019/03/01~2019/03/07

ProPublica|February 28

Want to Start a Collaborative Journalism Project? We’re Building Tools to Help.
The idea to launch Documenting Hate came shortly after Election Day 2016, in response to a widely reported uptick in hate incidents. Because data collection on hate crimes and incidents is so inadequate, we decided to ask people across the country to tell us their stories about experiencing or witnessing them. Thousands of people responded. To cover as many of their stories as we could, we organized a collaborative effort with local and national newsrooms, which eventually included more than 160 of them.

 

The Wrap|March 5

National Association of Black Journalists Calls Out CNN Over Lack of Diversity
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) called out CNN and its president, Jeff Zucker, in a press release, blasting the company for what it says is a lack of diversity in its top leadership. NABJ also said that it was placing the company on a special media monitoring list so the matter could be studied further.

 

Talking Biz News |March 5

WSJ to create new newsroom departments, add three dozen new jobs
The new jobs are divided into five areas: Young Audiences, Membership Engagement, Newsroom Innovation, Audience Data, and R&D.

 

Cointelegraph|March 5

Blockchain-Based Journalism Platform Civil Launches

Civil is a platform for independent journalism that aims to develop an alternative model to support journalism. The project’s ecosystem has its native CVL token —  the amount of which will be limited to 100 million — that purports to provide financial sustainability and improve trust in journalism.

 

BBC|March 4

Why Midlands local journalism matters
The problem for newspapers in general, and local newspapers in particular, is that fewer and fewer readers are responding in the old fashioned way to that traditional clarion call.

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